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Felixstowe Ferry 18
March 2009
Felixstowe Ferry
10 Feb 2002
Felixstowe
Ferry July 2006
Felixstowe
Ferry February 2007
Felixstowe Front and
Ferry November 2007 and 25
March 2008
Felixstowe Ferry 4 July 2008
Felixstowe Ferry 18 March 2009
Felixstowe Front 19/20 September 2008
Felixstowe Front 10 Feb 2002
Felixstowe- Landguard
Point
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From the car park on Cliff Road
(Clifflands) you get a vista over the golf course to the
north-east ... |
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The golf course is flanked by the
sea to the east, and protected throughout its length by fixed
defences, namely a sea wall with stepped concrete toe defences.
On the left, however, the sea wall, and rip-rap groynes, have
been rendered temporarily obsolete by the massive build up of a
shingle beach. |
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Golfers enjoying the spring
sunshine share space with greenkeepers adding fertilizer to the
course. |
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The view down over the beach huts
towards the sea shows much change, and at this very low water,
dramatic change at that, The lengthening shingle bar had already
cut off the rock groynes from the sea, but has now extended to
the south-west to end almost opposite the beach huts. |
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Beach huts and groynes, and a
very steep beach characterise this stretch of foreshore, just
opposite the end of the growing bar cusp. |
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The beach inshore of the growing
spit. |
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The exceptionally low tide has
drained some of the lagoons that abut the sea wall and that have
surrounded the rock groynes |
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It is ironic that only in the
area of the rock groynes has the shingle failed to colonise the
foreshore right up to the sea wall! |
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The shingle
ridge developed further offshore here, and so high tides full of shingle
were unable to penetrate over their own deposits to fill up this basin.
The height of the shingle bank is high to the seaward of the lagoons. |
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The beach towards the south, left, and
north, right, was about 3 metres from top to bottom at its greatest. |
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Ripples offshore indicate the
shallows are extensive, the shingle extending much further
offshore. |
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The slack water behind the
shingle beach will normally be much more extensive and there was
no vegetation colonising the tidal zone. |
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It is quite exciting to be standing fifty
metres offshore, on shingle clearly a few centimetres above sea level,
whilst the processes of longshore drift visibly add to the spit. |
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There were two bars that had dry
access from the shore, the above being the northern shingle
bank. |
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Views from the northern bank to the
south, left, along a rather deep-looking channel, centre and to the
north .. to Felixstowe Ferry, right. |
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Bawdsey Manor and a profile of the coast
around to Bawdsey Cliffs. |
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The shore has come under repeated assault
just to the south of Felixstowe Ferry, and, for some seasons, rip-rap
has been added to protect the sea wall. |
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Some of the smaller stones from the
rip-rap have been swept to the south ... |
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... and I do wonder if this decidedly
unattractive section of coast, within an area of such beauty, might be
better served by moving some of the excess shingle back up he coast a
couple of hundred yards! |
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A boat leaves Felixstowe Ferry
down the channel of Woodbridge Haven which is, I presume, a
hazardous navigation. |
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The footway is blocked to allow the
diggers, three of them, and a truck to operate along the top of the sea
wall. You can see the rip-rap overtopping the line of the line of the
wall. |
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Plastic fencing casts a chevron
line down the embankment, left, and the dumper truck scuttles
to-and-from removing materials, right. The monolithic wall of
rip-rap, two metres high, casts a sombre shadow over the beach. |
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The digger loading the dumper with waste
from the beach .. and the contractor's yard where another two diggers
are stored. All three machines are on the large side for diggers! |
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Natural defences again in front of the
Martello Tower. |
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Views of the shingle accretions on both
shores of the Deben. The centre shot shows the steep landward flank of
the shingle. |
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Bawdsey Manor across the River Deben,
with the shingle banks of 'The Knolls' being shown to advantage,
as they are on the right. |
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The Martello tower at the ferry
basks in the morning sunshine, its brick wall of limed and
lichen-pocked brick a study in textures. |
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The mouth of the Deben and the Bawdsey
shore, with its system of timber and rock groyne, centre. |
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The
series of rock groynes on the south side of the River Deben, are
matched by timber groynes on the northern shore |
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Felixstowe Ferry boasts a couple of pubs, left and right and,
centre, the road from the town, with the ridge of higher land of
Rue's Farm showing along the skyline across Felixstowe Marshes. |
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Approaching the
ferry along the river, and right, along the road ... with its fish
prices displayed! |
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Boats being maintained at the boatyards,
and for me a first sight of the sand bar called @The Horse Sands'
midstream the River Deben. |
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By the
banks of the Deben; boats overwintering and the ferry jetty, as
yet almost deserted at a low tide and, right, the concrete
matting and shingle characterising the last few metres
before the ferry. |
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A last look
back over the golf course and the coast towards Felixstowe
Ferry, on a fine day in an anticyclonic week in March. |
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Felixstowe Ferry River
Deben
Bawdsey Manor coasts defences hard
erosion change beaches groynes sand defences management groynes sailing golf
leisure shingle bars |
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